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nged, even with all of America's might. Samantha Power, a senior White House official before she became

e morally driven figures who nevertheless accept that the world is a fallen place which cannot easily be changed, even with all of America's might. Samantha Power, a senior White House official before she became U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, used to 5_4y, "We are all consequentialists now." We -- tha

n churches and intimidation of its critics. After the military's actions in the past few weeks, there is no going back. For the US government, for Mohamed ElBaradei, for the Saudis and Emeratis, for everyone who was on board with the interim government, the chance for a settlement between the post-coup regime

former senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Forei

t. For the fate of the Arab Spring still hangs most of all on what happens in the most populous and culturally powerful country in the Arab world. Mohamed ElBaradei, one of the frontrunners to be Egypt's next president and a leading liberal voice, told me last week: "If we succeed here, then the march towards d

be cautious when deriving neat rules about "the Power of Context," a phrase from Gladwell's earlier bo

d, for reasons that are now public knowledge. To understand why, one only needs read the memoirs of Jack Straw, then British foreign secretary, or Mohamed ElBaradei, then secretary general of the International Atomic Energy Agency — or indeed the memoirs of Rouhani, who was then the chief negotiator of the Ira

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ofa bed, and a flat-screen for secure videoconferencing. The intimacy of the quarters intensified an already awkward trip at the end of February when Samantha Power, who had been forced to resign from the Obama campaign in 2008 after calling Hillary a “monster,” traveled with the secretary of state to a U.N. Huma